Terrell v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is rape. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years.

The State’s testimony, briefly stated, shows that on the 18th day of July, 1938, while Allie Fay Mott was at home by herself, appellant came there and had two acts of sexual intercourse with her, she being then a few months past fourteen years of age. She made no report thereof to her father or mother until the 12th day of March, 1939, when her baby was born.

Appellant took the witness stand, denied that he ever had sexual intercourse with her and offered some evidence…